Title: Page 28 – Alex Kirk

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 * September 13, 2023
 * Reblog via [Matthias Pfefferle](https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/111057028031190434)
 * We just released version 1.0.0 of the [#WordPress](https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress)
   [#ActivityPub](https://mastodon.social/tags/ActivityPub) plugin! 🎉
 * This is the first release under the umbrella of [#Automattic](https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic)!
 * Thanks to Automattic and all the fantastic people who helped with this great 
   release!
 * [@mattwiebe](https://mastodon.social/@mattwiebe) for the amazing new blocks!
   
   [@mediaformat](https://indieweb.social/@mediaformat) for the http-signatures[@jeremy](https://fedi.jeremy.hu/@jeremy)
   for several Jetpack compatibilities[@nuriapenya](https://mastodon.social/@nuriapenya)
   for the design of the settings and blocks[@donnacavalier](https://wptoots.social/@donnacavalier)
   for all the texts and documentation[@alex](https://alex.kirk.at/author/alex/)
   for a lot of big and small contributions
 * [Web](https://alex.kirk.at/category/web/)
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Using Text Expansion for URL Completion](https://alex.kirk.at/2023/09/01/using-text-expansion-for-url-completion/)󠁿
   
 * September 1, 2023
 * In my professional life on the web, I tend to visit lots of the same URLs frequently.
   While I have (most of) them bookmarked in my browser, I usually don’t navigate
   to the bookmark and click it.
 * I start typing in the URL field of my browser ([Firefox](https://getfirefox.com))
   and since autosuggest also searches the bookmarks, those are often visible. I
   realized though that this is still often too slow and not straight forward enough:
   It happens that many URLs are very similar and have the same first part, such
   as on Github many repos are under the same organization.
 * So a while ago I started using Alfred’s snippets to expand URLs for me. By using`/`
   as a suffix^([1](https://alex.kirk.at/page/28/?output_format=md&term_id=44042#45e48b7b-c831-4a8f-bd40-0b9b00a6f877)),
   this allows for speedy expansion of URLs I visit frequently. A bonus is that 
   the same expansion works in other places where I need the URL, e.g. for linking
   it in blog posts.
 * So, for example, I have the snippet `g/a/` to expand to [https://github.com/akirk/](https://github.com/akirk/).
   If I then continue typing `fr`, my browser can autocomplete much more precisely
   because I have already entered part of the URL to [https://github.com/akirk/friends](https://github.com/akirk/friends)
   which I often visit.
 * Hope this can serve as an inspiration!
    1. Although I natively speak German, I have switched to US (Intl for the inverted-
       L Enter key, I cannot let got of that one) keyboards a long time ago to benefit
       from dedicated keys for square and curly brackets, this also means I have a 
       dedicated key for slash [↩︎](https://alex.kirk.at/page/28/?output_format=md&term_id=44042#45e48b7b-c831-4a8f-bd40-0b9b00a6f877-link)
 * [Web](https://alex.kirk.at/category/web/), [Workflow](https://alex.kirk.at/category/workflow/)
 * [Alfred](https://alex.kirk.at/tag/alfred/)

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